Roundup: Violets Taste Victory

Raymond Sykes had 14 points and 8 rebounds on 6/7 shooting from the field in Göttingen's win

New BG Göttingen coach Michael Meeks steered the club to a much-needed, 80-75 home triumph over Walter Tigers Tübingen at the weekend.

Meeks, a Canadian who represented his country at the Sydney Olympics and retired as a player last season, began this campaign as the assistant to Stefan Mienack but was put in charge of the team at the beginning of December with the club having claimed just one win in 14 games overall.

Now the 39-year-old has an important victory that Violets fans will be hoping starts on a winning run as the struggling outfit tries to leave the BEKO BBL basement.

Both Turk Telekom and Olin Edirne have no chance of progressing to the Last 16.

France

Elan Chalon, who claimed an 80-79 victory at BC Enisey in the EuroChallenge that improved the team to 4-1 and punched its Last 16 ticket six days ago, won 72-65 at home against Nancy - a team in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague.